Doom or Destiny – the best music video of the year in terms of Pop, Protest and fun! – Louder Than War Records

“In trying times, we try harder. Politics have become the new pop culture phenomena. The current landscape of music videos has so little to do with true protest or some kind of social message. It can be truthful, but irreverent, fun and funny. The punk style protest is somewhat removed from today’s modern music.”

— So Says Chris Stein of Blondie

See full article at LouderThanWar.com

The new, limited edition Blondie “Pollinator” black variant Vannen Watch (featuring artwork by Shepard Fairey) is now available for purchase at VannenWatches.com in two sizes!

The small “Pollinator” watch is perfect for tiny wrists, and retails for only $55. The XL (large) “Pollinator” watch is great for medium to large size wrists, and retails for $60.

Both versions feature a matte black watch, glossy red and white hands, silk-screened artwork, and Blondie etchings on the back casing and crown. Each “Pollinator” watch also comes packaged in a full-color sleeve with bonus Blondie stickers.

This is not a pre-order. “Pollinator” watches are on hand and ready to ship!  As a bonus, select orders will be chosen at random to receive autographed watch packaging signed by the band or Shepard Fairey. Good luck!

Click HERE to order the size small Pollinator Watch.

Click HERE to order the XL size Pollinator Watch.

Our gig at Round Chapel is now available to watch on Amazon Music Prime. Check it out at this link.

The limited edition Pollinator timepiece from Vannen Watches is almost gone! Pick one up today at VannenWatches.com and get FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING plus extra Blondie stickers with purchase. As a bonus, select watch orders will be chosen at random to receive autographed packaging signed by the band and Obey Giant. Good luck!

From Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of 20 Best Pop Albums of 2017:

#10. Blondie, ‘Pollinator’
“Not every band can sound fresh 40 years into a career, but not every band is Blondie…”

See full article at RollingStone.com!

“In trying times, we try harder. Politics have become the new pop culture phenomena. The current landscape of music videos has so little to do with true protest or some kind of social message. It can be truthful, but irreverent, fun and funny. The punk style protest is somewhat removed from today’s modern music.” — Chris Stein

Watch the new video for our song ‘Doom or Destiny’ now!

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein’s 13-minute interview on Studio 360 with WNYC’s Kurt Andersen is now available for streaming from the WNYC website’s “Blondie on Pollinator” page.

The interview discusses Blondie’s commitment to helping preserve pollinators through their #BeeConnected campaign, reveals that Debbie keeps honeybees, and features a music playlist containing songs chosen by Blondie that helped inspire the new album.

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Blondie is currently on tour in the U.S. with Garbage, and the new album Pollinator is out now and available in the Blondie Store.  Additional Blondie merchandise, including apparel, books, and signed memorabilia is available through our ArtistArena  page.

Blondie kicked off their 26-date “Rage and Rapture” U.S. tour with Garbage last night in Saratoga, California. Lead singers Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson recently joined up with Entertainment Weekly to give a very fun, interesting, and unconventional mutual interview and right now is the time to see both of these groundbreaking rockers who defy all labels live on tour together for the first time.

[Photo credit: Frazer Harrison]

Shirley Manson shares a long history of mutual admiration and respect with Debbie Harry. During Debbie’s 1990 solo tour of the UK, Shirley was part of the band Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, which provided support throughout the tour, and after a successful and distinguished, ongoing career with Garbage, she gave the speech inducting Blondie into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

Prior to the Entertainment Weekly interview, Debbie and Shirley were featured in a photo shoot for InStyle in 2004, performed together in 2004 for the Lifetime TV program WomenRock!, and previously shared a band manager and contributed to press releases to promote Blondie including the announcement of their forthcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November, 2005.  Both Blondie and Garbage have submitted theme songs for James Bond movies; Garbage’s track “The World Is Not Enough” was used in the eponymous 1999 film.

Garbage has an autobiographical coffee table book out now (inspired by a lyric from their song “Push It”), entitled This Is The Noise That Keeps Me Awake.  Blondie’s co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein also has a signed coffee table book featuring his famous photography and commentary: Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk (afterword by artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the Pollinator artwork), is available now through the Blondie webstore and to preview through the publisher Rizzoli International.  A selection of Chris Stein’s iconic photographs are also available for sale as limited edition custom prints through his official photography website. Chris’s photography is also featured in the 2018 Blondie calendar.

Exene Cervenka and John Doe (of X), and Deap Vally will be supporting the tour, with one special appearance in Los Angeles with Sky Ferreira (all on sale now).

Additional information and previously unreleased photos will be published in the print edition of Entertainment Weekly on Friday, July 7, 2017.

The Blondie episode of World Cafe will be re-broadcast on Friday, July 21, 2017.

World Cafe can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide. Tune into your local affiliate station at the scheduled World Cafe broadcast time, and check your local listings. To listen live online, check out the WXPN Philadelphia stream at 2pm ET at XPN.org by choosing WXPN  from the ‘Listen Live’ drop-down at the top of the page.

Blondie’s segment will be archived for on-demand streaming at WorldCafe.NPR.org at approximately 5pm ET on July 21, 2017.

People of the UK!
We are very happy to announce a run of shows for you during November 2017:

Sat 11 Manchester O2 Apollo 
Mon 13 Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
Tue 14 Glasgow SSE Hydro
Thu 16 London O2 Academy Brixton

London and Manchester tickets go on PRESALE this Wednesday (July 5) with the others following on Friday (July 7), all at 9am local time.
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photo credit (above): Lisa Businovski

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